Press Release Archive

Today, Columbia University announced the establishment of the Mendelson Center for Undergraduate Business Initiatives, a joint program between Columbia College and Columbia Business School. The Center was established with a $10 million gift from the Mendelson family, whose relationship with Columbia spans four generations. The Center will foster an ongoing business education program for select Columbia undergraduates.

On November 18, 2016, Columbia Business School’s Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics will host its annual conference, titled “Restoring Trust: New Realities and New Possibilities for Business Leadership,” featuring executives from US Soccer, Coach Inc., and Duke Energy among many others. This year’s theme focuses on how leaders view trust in the modern business world and how they integrate fairness and value into their daily roles in their respective industries.

On Veteran’s Day, November 11, Columbia Business School will host an event for active duty military and veterans interested in pursuing an MBA, bringing together prospective student veterans with current student veterans. The event will spotlight the mentorship and community provided by The Military in Business Association (MIBA), the veteran community on campus for Columbia Business School students.

To kick off Startup Week, a four-day celebration of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, The Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship announced the first winners of the newly established entrepreneurial research fellowship awards for PhD students. Each academic year, the Lang Center will award up to four students with a fellowship of $5,000. This year’s fellows will present their research publicly at the Entrepreneurial Research Showcase event in the spring of 2018.

Social and behavioral scientists caution that you must be careful when you use the “convert communicator” tactic. If the converts bash their own group too much, they lose persuasive powers and credibility. They must hold on to some essence of their original group identity while revealing this specific decision is about not being able to align that identity with this particular candidate.

Sidney and Helaine Lerner have generously endowed the new Lerner Value Adjuncts Fund, which will support the program of adjunct professors who teach Applied Value Investing at the School.

Sidney and Helaine Lerner have generously endowed the new Lerner Value Adjuncts Fund, which will support the program of adjunct professors who teach Applied Value Investing at the School. 

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the assistant vice presidents elected for the 2016–17 academic year. The officers, all in the class of 2018, were elected by the REA membership. 

Traditionally, companies look to a customer’s lifetime value (CLV) – a measure of how profitable their relationship with an individual will be over time – but new research from Columbia Business School indicates that traditional CLV measures can sharply underestimate the true value of the connected consumer. Today’s social networks can turn regular people – not necessarily big spenders – into major influencers.

Real Conversations features current MBA students, discussing their experiences in the Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School and beyond…in their own words.   

New research from Columbia Business School helps explain the low number of corporate whistle-blowers: company stock options are often given to rank-and-file employees to discourage them from publicly reporting financial reporting violations. 

Marketers take note: new research from Columbia Business School shows that when new products are introduced into the marketplace, they should be positioned as having the ability to increase consumers’ sense of control, rather than being labeled as “new,” in order to increase new product acceptance.

Many widespread, global issues like poverty and disease remain unaddressed because governments often lack financial resources to make the needed long-term investments. But a just-released book from Columbia Business School Professor Georgia Levenson Keohane has found a solution to the financial shortfall: using innovative financing, a creative way to find more money to tackle these global challenges and encourage smarter use of resources we deploy for social change.

David M. Sherman ’82, has been appointed co-director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, effective October 2016.

When doctors are forced to deliver negative and life-altering information to patients, they should deliver the news in a way that patients do not expect to hear it, this according to new research from Columbia Business School. Providing challenging information in a way that patients do not expect to hear it - or counter to a patient's "motivational focus" - will disrupt a patient's expected response, which in turn improves the patient’s ability to process critical information and make more informed and effective decisions regarding their treatment.

The Family Business Program at Columbia Business School and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), which operates the oldest and largest privately held bank in the United States, have announced a new partnership for the 2016–17 academic year. The partnership includes a gift from BBH that will provide crucial seed money to develop and scale the Family Business Program. The funds will enable the program to move forward with immediate plans for curricular development, research, and new student and alumni programming. BBH is the Family Business Program’s founding corporate sponsor.

On September 30, 2016, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School will host the annual Social Enterprise Conference. This year's one-day conference will focus on urbanization and how it is shaping the human experience in powerful ways. Top Fortune 500 companies participating in the event include: Microsoft, Propel, IBM, Vizalytics Technology, and Neighborly, among others.

On September 30, 2016, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School will host the annual Social Enterprise Conference. This year's one-day conference will focus on urbanization and how it is shaping the human experience in powerful ways. Top Fortune 500 companies participating in the event include: Microsoft, Propel, IBM, Vizalytics Technology, and Neighborly, among others.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome three new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Austin Khan ’04 and Richard D. Pretsfelder ’94 as Circle Leaders, and Anand Bhatia ’16 as a Circle Associate. 

Professor Takatoshi Ito recently appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss the Bank of Japan's monetary policy and what the global economy can learn from Japan. His segment appeared on September 1, 2016. Professor Takatoshi Ito's Bloomberg Interview The Lessons Learned From Japan's Economy

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, demand for emergency health care services is rapidly increasing, causing over-crowding and long wait-times in emergency rooms nationwide. New research from Columbia Business School shows that predictive analytics – that is, using data about ER demand to predict future demand – could help hospitals reduce wait times and improve care by diverting patients away from emergency rooms before they become overcrowded.

Dear Columbia Business School Alumni: As a member of the finance faculty and the Director of the Private Equity Program here at the Columbia Business School, I am writing you today to ask your assistance with important research that Professor Damon Phillips, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and I are undertaking. 

According to new research from Columbia Business School, workers of all ages increasingly value purpose and meaningfulness at work, so much so that they are willing to give up monetary benefits in exchange. "We tend to think of valuing non-monetary benefits over money only in mission-driven and public service organizations, but this research demonstrates that workers in for-profit organizations are also motivated by a company’s social responsibility," said author Vanessa Burbano, assistant professor of management at Columbia Business School.

The W. Edwards Deming Center at Columbia Business School announced that the 2016 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence will be awarded to David M. Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell, and Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo.

Christopher J. Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, has been appointed co-director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate as of July 1. He assumes the role most recently held by Professor Lynne B. Sagalyn. Professor Mayer was previously director of the Milstein Center from 2003–08.